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Re: Color Fonts?!?!? [message #30299 is a reply to message #30298]

Wed, 17 April 2002 12:13

Ken Mankoff
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Registered: February 2000

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> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:26:45 -0600
> From: Sean Davis <sdavis@nis.lanl.gov>
> Does anyone know how to make a string have different colored fonts. I
> would like the x-axis title on a plot to have a string that has different
> colors. thanks!

OK, after re-reading your post, it seems like you really do want each
letter to be a different color in the same string (weird!). In order
to do this via the method I showed in my last post, you need to use
fixed-width fonts OR somehow get plot to accept an "ALIGN=0.0" call.
If you can do either of these, it is simple to adapt the code below to
a loop of PLOT calls, with xtitle= being the key part.

If you want to do it in your normal font, you have to use XYOUTS, and
position the string in the correct location yourself. But here is how
to get a rainbow string:

data = indgen(10)
title = 'This is a Title'
plot, data
for i=15, 0, -1 do $
xyouts, 0.5, 0.5, align=0.0, /norm, $
strmid(title,0,i)+strmid(' ',i,15), $
color=255-(i*12), chars=2

This is getting closer to the "extraordinary hack" that David
mentioned (as in "extraordinary ugly").

-k.
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		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 17 April 2002 14:18
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:34
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:40
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:23
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 13:12
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 12:46
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 12:27
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 12:13
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:42
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:46
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 April 2002 11:43
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: Sdavis on Thu, 18 April 2002 11:32
		Re: Color Fonts?!?!? By: R.Bauer on Tue, 23 April 2002 09:55

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